What is the price of live chicken per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica live chicken is between US$ 2.61 and US$ 4.15 per kilogram or between US$ 1.18 and US$ 1.88 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of live chicken in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for live chicken is between CRC 1,417.21 and CRC 2,257.03 per kilogram or between CRC 642.72 and CRC 1,023.60 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2024, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica live chicken is between US$ 1.83 and US$ 2.91 per kilogram or between US$ 0.83 and US$ 1.32 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica live chicken - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of live chicken shipped by Costa Rica in 2020 was 625 metric tons. In 2019 Costa Rica shipped 534 tonnes of live chicken. Across 2019 alone, the market for Costa Rica live chicken (livestock category) has escalated, recording a change of 25.647 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, live chicken's exports increased by 13.14% bringing the country US$6.20m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's live chicken exports are classified as:
- Live fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, weighing <= 185 g (excluding turkeys and guinea fowls) (HS code 010511)
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Costa Rica live chicken export values
In 2019, Costa Rica exported live chicken valued at 6.20m USD, a surge of 19.28% from 2018's total live chicken export of 5.198m USD. The annual increase in value of Costa Rica live chicken between 2017 to 2018 was -8.647 percent.
The yearly variation in the amount of Costa Rica's live chicken exports between 2017 and 2019 was 13.14 per cent when compared to a variation of 25.647% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's portion of the world's total live chicken's exports in 2019 was less than 1%. Costa Rica is ranked number 47 in world exports of live chicken.
Export markets for Costa Rica live chicken ( in '000$ )
Import/Export Trends
Costa Rica is a net exporter of live chicken. The annual growth of Costa Rica live chicken in value between 2015 to 2019 was -13%, per year, while annual growth in quantity through the same period was -2%, per annum.
Costa Rica bought 76 tonnes of live chicken in 2019.